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BULLETIN OF THE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE

Published since 1836, the Bulletin of the Académie nationale de médecine gathers in particular the scientific papers presented in public and the texts expressing the opinion given by the Academy.

The Bulletin of the Académie nationale de médecine, published monthly, shows three main sections.

. The first section presents the statutory speeches (obituaries of deceased members of the Academy from one of his peers, acknowledging his life and work, in the presence of the family).

. The second section includes the scientific papers and lectures presented at the public meetings of the Academy, reports, opinions and communiqués of the various Standing Commissions and Working Groups of the Academy. they express the official position of the institution on a topical issue, either on request from public authorities or not.

. The third section, devoted to the life of the Academy, includes/understands the not-official correspondence (letters of private individuals or associations, visits, xpressions of gratitude, etc), elections results, presentation of the works reviewed during public sessions and registered in the Library.

Summaries of Bulletin de l'Académie nationale de médecine are listed in Current Contents with Institute for Scientific Information (Philadelphia).

Articles are indexed in Bioresearch Index of Biosciences Information Service (Philadelphia), as in Index Medicus, Excerpta Medica and the Bulletin Signalétique du CNRS (Paris).

SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE OF THE INSTITUTION.

Between 1820 and 1836, the Academy did not publish the totality of its works but a selection in form of Mémoires. At that time, meetings summaries were issued in several medical Journals, as the Gazette de santé (Paris), which became the Gazette médicale de Paris, as well as the Archives générales de médecine and the Gazette des hôpitaux civils et militaires.

Published since 1836, the Bulletin de l'Académie nationale de médecine was initially published by Baillière Ed. until 1871, then by Masson Ed. until 1980.

Since 1981, the Academy is its own editor.

The periodicity of the Bulletin de l'Académie nationale de médecine varied with time : initially semi-monthly, then weekly, and finally monthly publication (9 issues per yr).